Jean Rouch
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Jean Rouch (French: [ʁuʃ]; 31 May 1917, Paris – 18 February 2004, Niger) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered to be one of the founders of cinéma-vérité in France, which shared the aesthetics of the direct cinema. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker for over sixty years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of shared anthropology. Influenced by his discovery of surrealism in his early twenties, many of his films blur the line between fiction and documentary, creating a new style of ethnofiction. He was also hailed by the French New Wave as one of theirs. His seminal film Me a Black (Moi, un noir) pioneered the technique of jump cut popularized by Jean-Luc Godard. Godard said of Rouch in the Cahiers du Cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) n°94 April 1959, "In charge of research for the Musée de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Man") Is there a better definition for a filmmaker?" Along his career, Rouch was no stranger to controversy.
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Six in Paris (1965)
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Brise-glace (1990)
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Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
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Makwayela (1977)
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L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique (1964)
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Daouda Sorko (1967)
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Mammy Water (1953)
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The Mad Masters (1955)
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Horendi (1972)
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That Tender Age (1964)
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Gare du Nord (1965)
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The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham (1986)
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Ciné-mafia (1980)
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I, a Negro (1959)
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Moro Naba (1958)
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Urbanisme africain (1962)
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Germaine et ses copains (1996)
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Baby Ghana (1957)
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Le mil (1962)
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The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows (1964)
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Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend (1978)
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VW-Voyou (1973)
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Cousin, cousine (1987)
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Battle on the Great River (1950)
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Jaguar (1967)
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The Human Pyramid (1961)
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Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon (1983)
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Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice (1976)
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Les cocotiers (1963)
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The Punishment (1962)
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Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death (1981)
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Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm (1966)
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Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen (1977)
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Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken (1974)
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Brise-glace : Bateau givre (1987)
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Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel) (1968)
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Ayorou Singing Stones (1968)
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The Goumbé of the Young Revelers (1966)
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Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days (1962)
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Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani (1970)
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Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases) (1974)
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Damouré Speaks About AIDS (1992)
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Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé (1972)
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Drums from the Past (1971)
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après... (1990)
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Dionysos (1984)
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Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou (1968)
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Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed (1948)
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Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan) (1977)
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Giraffe Football or “The Alternative” (1973)
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Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945 (1987)
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Zomo et ses frères (1975)
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Enigma (1986)
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The Lion Hunters (1966)
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Un lion nommé l'Américain (1972)
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Abidjan, port de pêche (1962)
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Announcement (1997)
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Hombroï (1948)
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The Magicians of Wanzerbé (1948)
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The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death (1974)
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Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli (1971)
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In the Land of the Black Magi (1947)
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A Friendly Handshake (1997)
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Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo (1973)
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Circumcision (1949)
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Hampi (1962)
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Little by Little (1970)
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Les pêcheurs du Niger (1962)
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Monsieur Albert, prophète (1963)
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The Rainmakers (1951)
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Madame l'eau (1993)
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Boulevards d'Afrique (1989)
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Les gens du mil (1951)
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Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai (1979)
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Funérailles au Ghana (1960)
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I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down (1997)
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Le Rêve plus fort que la mort (2002)
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Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo (1967)
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Germaine chez elle (1994)
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Rose et Landry (1963)
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Boukoki (1973)
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Cemeteries in the Cliff (1951)
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Une sortie de novices de Sakpata (1958)
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Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo (1969)
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The Sons of the Water (1959)
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Architects of Ayorou (1970)
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Le palmier à l'huile (1963)
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La royale goumbé (1958)
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The Burial of the Hogon (1973)
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Mya - la mère (1970)
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Badye, the Storyteller (1977)
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Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision (1973)
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